Perfect User Accounts

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Exam objective: "Configure, manage, and troubleshoot local user and group accounts and account settings."

Lesson 1: Setting up User Accounts

You're golden if you can:
  • Describe how a local user account works
  • Describe how a domain user account works
  • Identify the built-in local user accounts in Windows XP Professional
  • Enable or disable the built-in Guest account

Lesson 2: Planning New User Accounts

  • Establish an effective naming convention for your organization's local user accounts
  • Create password requirements for protecting access to computers running Windows XP Professional

Hands-on exercise #1

Lesson 3: Modifying, Creating, and Deleting User Accounts

  • Manage users by using the User Accounts tool
  • Manage users by using the Computer Management snap-in
  • Create a password reset disk

Lesson 4: Configuring Properties for User Accounts

  • Configure general properties for user accounts by using the General tab
  • Add a user account to groups by using the Members tab
  • Configure a user profile by using the Profile tab

Lesson 5: Implementing Groups

  • Explain the purpose of a group
  • Identify guidelines for using local groups
  • Create a local group, add members, and delete a group
  • Identify the built-in local groups
  • Identify the built-in system groups